Comments on: How To Monitor Remote Windows Machine Using Nagios on Linux

By: Himakumar

Himakumar — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:03:43 +0000

Hi Ramesh sir,

It’s working fine , Thank you for giving the step by step procedure,
Thank you ,

By: Leigh C

Leigh C — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:11:35 +0000

I might have to retract my previous statement… looks like NSClient 0.3.9 is only compiled for x86… I grabbed 0.3.8 for x64 from Sourceforge and it is working fine

By: Leigh C

Leigh C — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:48:46 +0000

Hi Ramesh et All,

I have tried the NSClient++ with a Windows 2008 x64 and Windows 7 x64 system, the installer fails, so I just downloaded the zip files and installed the service manually.
I have been able to get everything working, with the exception of the PROCSTATE for check_nt, It will not correctly report on 64 bit running applications like explorer.exe or notepad.exe, but does correctly report any 32bit applications as running correctly.
I will continue to investigate… or look for alternatives.

By: krushna

krushna — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:15:55 +0000

Thanks , Nice documentation with screenshot.

By: Balaji Sridhar

Balaji Sridhar — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:02:31 +0000

Ramesh & Experts:

Need a support for Nagios. In windows 2008 R2 64 bit Nagios client needed. Since we tired various experiments we could not resolve. Any other additional plugins to add in Nagios server. Please reply.

Regards
Balaji Sridhar

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:31:11 +0000

Hi Anthony-

Thanks for responding. All the servers I’m trying to add (as well as the single one I was able to add) are running W2K3 Std (32 bit)
-The Windows Firewall is turned off on all servers
-Yes, I installed and started the NSClient service on the new installs the same way I did the first.
-Yes, I restarted the Nagios Service (/etc/rc/d/init.d/nagios reload) I’ve also stopped and started for the heck of it.

I think I’m going to go buy a Nagios book this weekend and do some reading. I’m in way over my head right now, but I’m stubborn and really excited about what Nagios can do, so I want to figure this all out.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:33:46 +0000

Since you did not say what version of Windows Server you are running, I will ask a few simple questions.
Is the Nagios Client/Service Port allowed through the Windows Firewall?
Did you install and start the NSClient Service on the newer installations?
Did you restart the Nagios Service after adding the new machines to the configuration?

Anthony

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:08:41 +0000

Had some trouble getting more than one windows server to show up despite defining host entries for each one in windows.cfg. I initially installed client on one machine, updated windows.cfg, and the server showed up in Nagios under the host group I specified. I then installed client on two more windows machines the same way, added separate host entries for them in windows.cfg, and added the two server names to the members line under define hostgroup. (I read somewhere you can simply separate with a comma and they will show up in that group) Regardless of that, they don’t seem to show up at all. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I’m finding Nagios has so much potential, but just starting out and trying to fill in the gaps of knowledge.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:15:52 +0000

Has anyone successfully configured NSClient++ to monitor a machine running 64bits Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard ? I have tried the latest nightly build, previous release without any success. Below is the error message from the nsclient.log.

2010-10-22 01:40:59: error:modules\CheckSystem\PDHCollector.cpp:215: Failed to query performance counters: \Processor(_total)\% Processor Time: PdhGetFormattedCounterValue failed: A counter with a negative denominator value was detected. (800007D6)

Thanks

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:42:06 +0000

Has anyone got CheckTaskSched working?
Could you possibly paste your working command for us to experiment with,
I am trying to monitor Scheduled Tasks, I have some that dont start, and some with error numbers, it also appears that those that fail to start do not have an error number.

Much appreciated.

Regards